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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

The breakthrough here is how smaller online shops found a platform that helped them reach the global market and be a part of this new rising phenomenon. Dell – the American multinational computer technology firm had broken the barrier of a million-dollar online sales back in 1994. Marketing Channels.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. What’s Next in 2012….

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

Back in 1994, very few people would have predicted that the largest bookseller in the world would be a software company. Music distribution—the largest music distributor in the world is a technology company, Apple; its largest potential threat, Spotify, is a software company. Software is eating the world.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Israel’s ranking in the’s Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 increased to 24th place from 27th the year before. The Global Competitiveness Index is based on 12 pillars of competitiveness, which together provide a comprehensive picture of the competitiveness landscape in 139 economies around the world at all stages of development.

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Digital Currency and Bitcoinmania. Is ProfessorVC too Late to the Party?

Professor VC

For those not familiar with Ripple, it is an open-source, distributed payment protocol. Ripple''s goal is to make payments just like communications -- global, distributed, instant and free. Some people make the analogy of digital currencies being at the same stage the Internet was at in 1994.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. Including Rwanda, which now has over 60% female representation in its Parliament – instrumental in healing the country from its horrific 1994 genocide. One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma.

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